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Relaxation-Cycle Power Generation Systems Control Optimization Mariam Samir Ahmed Relaxation-cycle power generation systems control optimization Mariam Samir Ahmed To cite this version: Mariam Samir Ahmed. Relaxation-cycle power generation systems control optimization. Electric power. Université de Grenoble, 2014. English. NNT : 2014GRENT019. tel-01282457 HAL Id: tel-01282457 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01282457 Submitted on 3 Mar 2016 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. THESE` pour obtenir le grade de DOCTEUR DE L’UNIVERSITE´ DE GRENOBLE Sp´ecialit´e: G´enie Electrique´ Arrˆet´eminist´eriel : 7 aoˆut 2006 Present´ ee´ par Mariam Samir AHMED These` dirigee´ par Prof. Seddik BACHA et coencadree´ par Dr. Ahmad HABLY prepar´ ee´ au sein du Grenoble G´enie Electrique´ Laboratoire (G2ELAB) En collaboration avec Grenoble Images Parole Signal Automatique Laboratory (GIPSA-Lab) dans l’Ecole´ Doctorale:Electronique, Electrotechnique, Automatique, T´el´ecommunication et Signal Optimisation de Contrˆole Commande des Syst`emes de G´en´eration d’Electricit´e`aCycle´ de Relaxation These` soutenue publiquement le 28 F´evrier 2014, devant le jury compose´ de: M. Brayima DAKYO Professeur `al’Universit´edu Havre, France, Pr´esident M. Mohamed BENBOUZID Professeur `al’Universit´ede Brest, Rapporteur M. Rachid OUTBIB Professeur `al’Universit´ed’Aix-Marseille, France, Rapporteur M. Lorenzo FAGIANO Scientist at ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland, Examinateur M. Garrett SMITH Pr´esident et COO de Cosmica Spacelines, Examinateur M. Seddik BACHA Professeur `al’Universit´eJoseph Fourier, Directeur de th`ese M. Ahmad HABLY Maˆıtre de Conf´erences `aGrenoble INP, Co-encadrent de th`ese D´edi´e`ala Syrie Acknowledgment Three years of my life went by, three years that shaped a new future for me, a future I didn’t know is been waiting for me. More than a scientific research trip, these years were a journey full of emotions, happiness, stress, homesickness and love. The journey wouldn’t have end successfully without the support, directly or indirectly, of many people that I would like to thank here. Firstly, I would like to thank the thesis jury members I was honored to have to help con- clude this work: Mr.Dakyo the president of the jury, and Mr.Benbouzid and Mr.Outbib for their feedback and proofreading of the manuscript. Also I would like to thank Mr.Fagiano for making part of the jury and offering his expertise in a the novel field of kite-based systems, as well as Mr.Smith for the passionate discussions on renewable energy we had. Back to 2010, For my master internship I was honored to work under the guidance of Professor Seddik BACHA, Professor Daniel Roye and Mathieu Hauk a PhD student at the time in the Electrical Engineering Laboratory G2ELAB. They introduced me to a very innovative interesting subject! Using Kites to generate electricity! I was completely concurred and when a PhD was proposed to continue on the same idea I jumped at the opportunity. I’m very grateful to having worked with M.Bacha et M.Ahmad Hably during my PhD, who I thank for their guidance and patience. My gratitude goes to the staff of G2ELAB and GIPSA-Lab for the scientific friendly environment they offer, in addition to their help and guidance in the administration work. Further, I would like to thank M.G´erard Meunier for welcoming me and helping me join the Master 2R - G´enie Electrique in INP, as well as my master friends who helped me catch up with them (being 2 months late for the course), we spent a great time preparing for exams, eating and partying together: Ionela, Minh, Christina, Julian, Luiz, Lyubo, Soul, Loic, thanh, and Hai, thank you so much. I won’t talk about this period without having a thought for my friend Moustafa to whom I own my deepest gratitude, he helped me settle down in Grenoble and taught me about adminstration work, university system among other things. Thank you Moustafa for everything. Thanks for the thesis, I had the chance to be part of the OPLAT association with which 6 Acknowledgment I spent a great year organizing activities in the lab, as well as the ZIK music group that was a relaxing escape during the hardest times. The thesis brought me also a great group of friends that I’m counting on keeping them forever: Nathalie, Raha, Angelina, Soulafa, Rachelle, Sinan, Antony, Bibi, and many other. The best that the thesis has done was allowing me to meet my colombian soul mate Jos´e, something I wasn’t expecting at all when I first arrived to France. He was always there for me during both the happy and the sad moments. I would never be where I am now without you by my side. Thank you Josito for introducing me to your lovely family that I’m so proud to call mine. My heart goes to my parents in Aleppo. My father who walked me, a little girl of five years old, and pointed stars to me and explain how the universe works in simple inspiring words. He would hand me over scientific books and teach me about electricity and statistics when I was eight. He implanted the passion for science in my heart and always encouraged me to follow this passion. Thank you mom for your encouragement and patience, I remember when I tried to help her with the house work she would always tell me to concentrate on my studies and that I ”will have the time to worry about these stuff later” even though she would have used some help being a working mom of four children, I wish to have half the energy you have when I become a mother. This work is dedicated to you dad and mom. Thank you my little brothers: Ahmad, Obada and Amr, for always supporting my decisions and enforcing my confidence by looking up to me and making me feel specially perfect for them. Contents Acknowledgment 5 List of Acronyms xi List of Notations xiii General Introduction 1 I Relaxation Cycle Renewable Energy Systems 3 I.1 Introduction .................................. 5 I.2 Renewable Energy .............................. 6 I.2.a Global Energy Situation and Expectations ................. 7 I.2.b Renewable Energy Evolution ........................ 9 I.3 Wind Energy .................................. 10 I.3.a Conversion Technologies .......................... 11 I.3.a-i Wind Turbines ......................... 11 I.3.a-ii High Altitude Wind Energy Technologies . 13 I.3.a-iii Comparison between Different Technologies . 14 I.3.b Flexible Power Kites ............................ 15 I.3.b-i Crosswind Kite Power ..................... 16 I.3.b-ii Energy Generation ....................... 18 I.3.c Kite-based System vs Classic Wind Turbine . 21 I.4 Wave Energy .................................. 22 I.4.a Wave Average Power ............................ 23 I.4.b Wave Energy Conversion Technologies ................... 24 I.4.b-i Near-shore WEC Systems ................... 24 I.4.b-ii Off-shore WEC Systems .................... 25 I.4.b-iii Comparison between Different Technologies . 26 I.4.c Vertically Oscillating Point Absorber Systems . 27 I.4.c-i Wave Energy Extraction ................... 27 I.4.c-ii Energy Generation Concept . 28 I.5 Relaxation Cycle Systems ......................... 29 I.5.a Kite-based System’s Relaxation Cycle ................... 31 I.5.b Heaving Point-Absorber’s Relaxation Cycle . 32 I.6 Problem Statement and Objectives ................... 33 I.7 Conclusion ................................... 33 ii CONTENTS II Relaxation Cycle Systems: Structure and Modeling 35 II.1 Introduction .................................. 37 II.2 Kite Generator System ........................... 37 II.2.a KGS Structure ............................... 38 II.2.a-i The Kite ............................ 38 II.2.a-ii Kite Orientation ........................ 40 II.2.a-iii The Tethers .......................... 41 II.2.b KGS Modeling ............................... 41 II.2.b-i Kite Dynamics ......................... 43 II.2.b-ii Machine Applied Traction ................... 46 II.2.c Wind Speed Estimation .......................... 47 II.3 Heaving Point-Absorber System ..................... 47 II.3.a HPS Structure ............................... 48 II.3.b HPS Modeling ............................... 49 II.3.b-i Hydrodynamics Study ..................... 49 II.3.c Power Maximization Techniques ...................... 52 II.3.c-i Optimal Amplitude Control . 52 II.3.c-ii Optimal Phase Control .................... 53 II.3.c-iii Reactive Control ........................ 53 II.3.c-iv Comparison ........................... 53 II.4 Conclusion ................................... 56 IIIKite Generator System: Supervision 59 III.1 Introduction .................................. 61 III.2 Nonlinear Model Predictive Controller . 62 III.2.a Methodology ................................ 63 III.2.a-i Primary Orbit Choice ..................... 63 III.2.a-ii Orbit Optimization ...................... 64 III.2.a-iii Orbit Period .......................... 65 III.2.a-iv NMPC Design ......................... 66 III.2.b Application ................................. 67 III.3 Virtual Constraints-based Controller . 71 III.3.a Methodology ................................ 75 III.3.a-i KGS Under-actuated Model . 75 III.3.a-ii Reduced Dynamics
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